High blood pressure can be curtailed with proper exercise

The leading risk for death in North America is high blood pressure. Surprised? When you consider that it can cause strokes, heart attacks, heart and kidney failure, it starts to make more sense. Type-2 diabetes, family history of cardiovascular... more

• Comfort cooking
• The pros and cons of using new and old-style light bulbs
• Canada’s car and UTE of the year finalists

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Gaining perspective on Remembrance Day celebrations

Imagine a Canada in which Hitler is a hero, democracy is dead and multiculturalism is a dream. There’s no Maple Leaf, Jarome Iginla is not allowed to play hockey because he’s black and the mere mention of forming a Jewish cultural... more

• Prairie soddies or living roofs: It’s all a good thing
• Letting go is not as bad as it may seem to some of us
• Local Internet news site steps over the line

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Learning and fun go hand in hand for kids

To the editor: Re: Children Don’t Benefit From Early Education (letter to the editor Oct. 25 Capital News). Letter writer David Buckna presents research supporting his position that full-day kindergarten is not beneficial to children, and may even be harmful. While a... more

• Housing the homeless is a matter of will and resources, not a lack of knowledge
• Wal-Mart doesn’t deserve blame for stores closing
• Cable pres upset TV networks demanding a tax

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Two worlds

Forty-five minutes of highway are a gulf between two very different worlds. A few months ago, I became a crime reporter in Kelowna. My time is now split between the Capital News and the Summerland Review. Travelling back and forth each... more

• The quest for a local apple
• The Den Report, Lions beat 'Riders, now 2-4
• The Den Report, Logan impressing in NFL camp

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